Steve Hughes is a Principal Consultant at Magenic. His area of expertise is in data and business intelligence architecture on the Microsoft SQL Server platform. He was also the data architect for a SaaS company which delivered a transportation management solution for fleets across the United States. Steve has co-authored two books and delivered more than 30 presentations on SQL Server and data architecture over the past six years. He also provides insights from the field on his blog at http://dataonwheels.wordpress.com.

Archives: February 2017

Splitting Strings in SQL

A problem that has plagued SQL developers through the years is splitting strings. Many techniques have been used as more capabilities were added to SQL Server including XML datatypes, recursive CTEs and even CLR. I have… Read more

Throughout many years of working with BI solutions and data warehouse solutions, we have strived to put all the data in one location so it could be easily consumed by reporting and analysis tools from SQL Server Reporting Services to Microsoft Excel. We have followed the dimensional modeling processes promoted… Read more